Section: Application Domains

Multiscreen TV

The convergence between television and the Internet has accelerated significantly over the past few years, with the democratization of TV on-demand and replay services and the emergence of social TV services and multiscreen applications. These evolutions and the consequently ever growing number of innovative applications offer a unique playground for multimedia technologies. Recommendation plays a major role in connected TV. Enriching multimedia content, with explicit links targeting either multimedia material or knowledge databases, appears as a key feature in this context, at the core of rich TV and second screen applications.